This a great recipe from my wife Julie Piatt.  All 4 of our kids love these for breakfast, and they go great with jam or a vegan butter substitute.

Alternatively, the scones are delicious served as a dinner roll with dishes such as vegan mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, black bean vegan chili or vegetable soup.

Give them a try and let me know what you think!

Scone Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups amaranth, brown rice or buckwheat flour
• 1/4 cup ground flax seeds
• 1/2 cup arrowroot (sifted)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cardamon
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 mashed organic bananas
• 3/4 cup organic maple syrup
• 1/4 cup coconut oil

Directions:

1. Sift all dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. In a smaller bowl, mash bananas, maple syrup, and coconut oil.
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, pour wet mixture in and mix by hand.
4. Lightly press together to form 2-inch pieces.  Drop onto lightly oiled cookie sheet.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, or until lightly brown.  Scones should be organic in shape and drop like a cookie.
6. Serve!

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Rich’s inspirational memoir FINDING ULTRA: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself (Crown / Random House) hits bookshelves May 22, 2012 and is currently available for pre-order.  For more information on the book, visit www.findingultra.com

For more on how Rich fuels his family and training, check out his and his wife Julie’s plant-based e-cookbook JAI SEED – a beautiful coffee-table style cookbook for the digital iPad set that contains 77 glossy pages of plant-based nutrition information and easy to prepare recipes certain to satisfy even the most finicky family member.

All customers pre-ordering FINDING ULTRA between now and May 22 shall receive a free 7-recipe download excerpted from JAI SEED.  See findingultra.com for details!